Gerald Stanley Trial - Jury Deliberations Day 2

The jury's request was only to listen the moments from the Stanley men's testimony just before and after the fatal shot was fired. That is, after the two warning shots, after Sheldon came back out of the house. That's a focus of the jury--the exact moment Boushie was shot.

Because the jury is focusing on the testimony from the moment of the shooting that's where I will focus too. Sheldon talking now about the SUV riding onto the farm, the person getting out on the ATV, smashing the windshield.

Sheldon talking about smashing the windshield, seeing the SUV crash into his mother's vehicle. Even though we've heard this entire event took only a couple of minutes-from the time the SUV pulled up to Boushie shot--we're still a ways off from the actual moment of the shooting.

"I ran towards to the house, not knowing if that vehicle was going to leave," Sheldon says. "As I got up the stairs onto the deck I could hear a gun shot behind me...as I got into the house I could hear a second shot."

Now the moment from Sheldon's testimony: "As I came down the stairs I could see my father walking up beside the grey ford escape...I remember looking into the backseat and then back towards my truck again...and that's when I heard the third shot."

The crown says this key part of the testimony differs from Gerald Stanley's. Stanley says he ran to the vehicle. Sheldon, just now, says he walked. Sheldon also does not describe his father bending down to look under the SUV. Says he saw him standing next to it bf shot went off.

We're on a short break here. But I should remind everyone, that although the jury deliberations are completely secret, they had to come back into open court here to re-listen to the Stanley testimony. I'm listening along with them and will bring you key details.

The jury requested just to hear the portions of Gerald Stanley and Sheldon Stanley's testimony that relates directly to that third shot being fired, the shot that killed Coten Boushie. But court ruled the jury will hear the entire testimony.

We're now through re-hearing audio of Sheldon Stanley's testimony. Now we are again hearing Gerald Stanley's testimony. I won't tweet out the whole thing, just the key parts that the jury has requested to hear--the moment Boushie was shot.

So the audio went dead for a moment there and I couldn't hear what the judge was saying about that jury concern. Turns out a juror had a concern that someone was taking a photo in court--that was not the case. We are now back into re-hearing Gerald Stanley's testimony.

This audio of the testimony being replayed is a bit difficult to follow--only because during the actual testimony Stanley was using a aerial photograph of the farm to describe his movements. The jury and the court are only hearing the audio.

In a joint statement, Mayor Clark and Tribal Chief Arcand say "This case has cracked open the racial undercurrent in Saskatchewan with the potential to further drive a wedge of mistrust between communities." https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVnOxFkVwAElb9L.jpg

Saskatoon Mayor Clark and Saskatoon Tribal Council Chief Arcand go onto say "We cannot build our future with hateful dialogue and divisiveness. Reconciliation must grow from the community level to being truly valued and embodied by us as individuals."

We are now approaching the critical moment in the audio that the jury requested to hear. Stanley has now fired his first and second warning shot...."This time I really wanted them to run," he says. Spencer asked how many times he pulled the trigger: "Two or three times."

Good to note here during the judge's instructions, he told jurors that both and crown and the defence agreed that these warning shots were a "lawful act." So the legality of firing those warnings shots is not in question.

So now, I recall, we are at the point in the audiotape where Stanley was demonstrating with the pistol how he says it looked after he fired those warning shots. This was the part that Boushie's family described as one of the hardest things they had to sit through.

Key Stanley testimony here: "I ran as hard as I could to the front of the car. I went right to front of the car. I looked down. I was going kneel down to look under and it revved up...I thought the car was going to run me over."

On the audio tape we're hearing Stanley now demonstrating how he reached into the SUV, he says to turn off the ignition. This is moments before the gun went off. "I was reaching in...Boom it just went off."

Stanley, on the audio tape, says his finger wasn't on the trigger when he reached in. Asked what by Spencer what he was doing with his right hand as he reached into the SUV to turn off the ignition--"I'm not even sure."

We're now approaching the time frame in the cross examination where Burge begins to question Stanley about the third shot. The focus at this point was on whether Stanley thought he loaded more than two rounds into the gun. "I wasn't 100%," Stanley says.

Burge: "In your left hand you had the magazine?" Stanley says yes. He asks what the person in the vehicle, Boushie, was doing. Stanley says Boushie was "pushing him." "He was pushing on my arms of both hands...I just remember I could feel it there."

Stanley saying on the tape that he wasn't trying to scare Boushie, that he was trying scare all the people off the farm. Stanley also says he doesn't remember telling his son that he "bumped him" meaning Boushie.